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The Myth of Splitting the CEO/Chair jobs: By now, it's the perceived wisdom that people who are chief executive officers should not also be chairmen of the board. Institutional Shareholder Services and all sorts of rating agencies state, with complete conviction, that the job should be split--at all times, and at all companies. But...; Tags: William J. Holstein, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Management, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Governance, CEO, Decision-making, Chairman, Board, Job; Blog posts 2008-02-15
Study: Many Directors Think CEOs Are Overpaid. Will They Fix It?: CEO pay is "too high in most cases," say about one in three directors of U.S.-based public companies in a just-released survey by Heidrick & Struggles International and the Center for Effective Organizations CEO at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. The survey also found...; Tags: William J. Holstein, Human Resources, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Benefits, Corporate Governance, CEO, Director, Board, Compensation; Blog posts 2008-02-05
Did Meg Whitman Fail?: This is a tough question to ask because Meg Whitman has been a legendary Silicon Valley CEO for 10 years and one of America's leading women CEOs, but ask it we must: does her expected departure from eBay at the age of 51 signal a management failure on her part?...; Tags: Meg Whitman, eBay Inc., CEO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Gender And Diversity, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Human Resources, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2008-01-23
The Coke Board Gets It: A Lesson in CEO Succession: Bravo to the board of Coca-Cola and Chairman and CEO Neville Isdell: This is how to handle CEO succession. Isdell, who is 64, announced he would step down as CEO and turn over the reins to Muhtar Kent, 55, who had been serving as president and chief...; Tags: Human Resources, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Operational Accounting, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Governance, Coke Board, CEO, Succession, Workforce Management, Finance, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-12-10
Lucent-Alcatel: Why Cross-Cultural Mergers Are So Tough: If you're ever tempted to undertake a cross-cultural merger or acquisition, think real hard about it. Very hard. Lucent's merger with France's Alcatel is a case in point. Although much ballyhooed when Lucent CEO Pat Russo and Alcatel CEO Serge Tchuruk reached the deal 18 months ago,...; Tags: Investment, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, William J. Holstein, Corporate Governance, Recruitment & Selection, Government, Mergers & Acquisitions, CEO, Alcatel, Inclination, Merger, Instinct, Lucent Technologies Inc., Job; Blog posts 2007-11-01

The Ownership of Glass Lewis Is All Wrong: Glass Lewis & Co. is one of the cops on the beat. Although not as powerful as Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, Glass Lewis' ratings of companies and their corporate governance practices really matter. And in contested proxy battles, many investors turn to Glass Lewis for its opinion. ...; Tags: Human Resources, Finance, William J. Holstein, Business Operations, Financial Accounting, Benefits, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Teacher; Blog posts 2007-10-29